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Schnepper, R., Georgii, C., Eichin, K., Arend, A.-K., Wilhelm, F. H., Vögele, C., Lutz, A., Van Dyck, Z. & Blechert, J. (2020). Fight, flight, - or grab a bite! Trait emotional and restrained eating style predicts food cue responding under negative emotions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14:91. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00091. pdf.

Lender, A., Meule, A., Rinck, M., Brockmeyer, T., & Blechert, J. (2018). Measurement of food-related approach-avoidance biases: Larger biases when food stimuli are task relevant. Appetite, 125, 42–47. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.01.032 pdf.

Reichenberger, J., Schnepper, R., Arend, A.-K. & Blechert, J. (2020). Emotional eating in healthy individuals and patients with an eating disorder – Evidence from psychometric, experimental and naturalistic studies. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 1-10. doi: 10.1017/S0029665120007004. pdf.

Reichenberger, J., Kuppens, P., Liedlgruber, M., Wilhelm, F. H., Tiefengrabner, M., Ginzinger, S., & Blechert, J. (2018). No haste, more taste: An EMA study of the effects of stress, negative and positive emotions on eating behavior. Biological Psychology, 131, 54-62. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.09.002 html / pdf.

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2021/in press

Arend, A.-K., Blechert, J., Pannicke, B., & Reichenberger, J. (2021). Increased screen use on days with increased perceived COVID-19-related confinements–A day level ecological momentary assessment study. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 1062.

doi: 10.3389/fpubh/2020.623205 pdf.

Dondzilo, L., Basanovic, J., Bell, J., Mills, C., Dinic, R., & Blechert, J. (2021). Assessment of approach-avoidance tendencies in body image using a novel touchscreen paradigm. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 101612.

doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101612 html

Lutz, A., Dierolf, Z., van Dyck, Georgii, C., Schnepper, R., Blechert, J., & Vögele, C. (2021). Mood induced changes in the cortical processing of food images in bulimia nervosa, Addictive Behaviors, doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106712. pdf / html.

Pannicke, B., Kaiser, T., Reichenberger, J., & Blechert, J. (2021) Networks of stress, affect and eating behaviour: anticipated stress coping predicts goal-congruent eating in young adults. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18 (9). doi: 10.1186/s12966-020-01066-8. pdf / html.

2020

Chami, R., Treasure, J., Cardi, V., Lozano-Madrid, M, Eichin, K. N., McLoughlin, G, & Blechert, J. (2020). Exploring changes in event-related potentials after a feasibility trial of inhibitory training for bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1056.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01056. pdf.

Van Dyck, Z., Schulz, A., Blechert, J., Herbert, B. M., & Vögele, C. (2020). Gastric interoception and gastric myoelectrical activity in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. International Journal of Eating Disorders.1-10, doi: 10.1002/eat.23291. pdf.

Glashouwer, K. A., Brockmeyer, T., Cardi, V., Jansen, A., Murray, S. B., Blechert, J. et al. (2020). Time to make a change: A call for more experimental research on key mechanisms in anorexia nervosa. European Eating Disorders Review, 28 (4), 361-367. doi: 10.1002/erv.2754. pdf.

Kahveci, S., Meule, A., Lender, A., & Blechert, J. (2020). Food Approach Bias is Moderated By Desire to Eat Specific Foods. Appetite. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2020.104758. pdf.

Kahveci, S., Van Bockstaele, B., Blechert, J., & Wiers, R.W. (2020). Pulling for pleasure? Erotic approach-bias associated with porn use, not problems. Learning and Motivation, 72:101656. doi: 10.1016/j.lmot.2020.101656. pdf / html

Legenbauer, T. M., Radix, A. K., Naumann, E., & Blechert, J. (2020). The Body Image Approach Test (BIAT): a potential measure of the behavioral components of body image disturbance in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 30. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00030. pdf.

Lender A., Miedl S.F., Wilhelm F.H., Miller J., Blechert J. (2020). Love at first taste: Activation in reward-related brainregions during single-trial naturalistic appetitive conditioning in humans. Physiology & Behavior, 224. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113014 pdf.

Miedl, S.F., Rattel, J.A., Franke, L.K., Blechert, J., Kronbichler, M., Spoormaker,V.I., Wilhelm, F.H. (2020). Neural processing during fear extinction predicts intrusive memories. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5 (4), 403–411. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2019.12.017. pdf.

Pannicke, B., Reichenberger, J., Schultchen, D., Pollatos, O., Blechert; J. (2020). Affect improvements and measurement concordance between a subjective and an accelerometric estimate of physical activity. European Journal of Health Psychology, 27, 66-75. doi: 10.1027/2512-8442/a000050. pdf.

Rattel, J.A., Miedl, S.F., Liedlgruber, M., Blechert, J., Seidl, E., & Wilhelm, F.H. (2020). Sensation seeking and neuroticism in fear conditioning and extinction: the role of avoidance behaviour. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 135:103761. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2020.103761. pdf / html

Reichenberger, J., Pannicke, B., Arend, A.-K., Petrowski, K., & Blechert, J. (2020). Does stress eat away at you or make you eat? EMA measures of stress predict day to day food craving and perceived food intake as a function of trait stress-eating. Psychology and Health, 1-19. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2020.1781122 pdf.

Schnepper, R., Blechert, J., & Stok, F.M. (2020). Reception of Health Messages: Effects of Stigmatization and Forcefulness. Journal of Public Health. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa233.

Schnepper, R., Reichenberger, J. & Blechert, J. (2020). Being my own companion in times of social isolation – A 14-day mobile self-compassion intervention improves stress levels and eating behavior. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.595806. pdf.

Werner, G., Schabus, M., Blechert, J., Wilhelm, F.H. (2020). Differential effects of REM sleep on emotional processing: Initial evidence for increased short-term emotional responses and reduced long-term intrusive memories. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 1-16. doi: 10.1080/15402002.2020.1713134. pdf.

Wyssen, A., Leins, J., Reichenberger, J., Blechert, J., Munsch, S., & Steins‐Loeber, S. (2020). Body‐Related Cognitive Distortions (Thought‐Shape Fusion Body) Associated with Thin‐Ideal Exposure in Female Students–an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 27, 220-227. doi: 10.1002/cpp.2421 pdf.

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2019

Blechert, J., Lender, A., Polk, S., Busch, N. A., & Ohla, K. (2019). Food-Pics_Extended - An Image Database for Experimental Research on Eating and Appetite: Additional Images, Normative Ratings and an Updated Review. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(307), 1–9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00307 pdf.

Georgii, C., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Richard, A., Van Dyck, Z., & Blechert, J. (2019). The dynamics of self-control: within-participant modeling of binary food choices and underlying decision processes as a function of restrained eating. Psychological Research, 1-12. doi: 10.1007/s00426-019-01185-3 pdf.

Meule, A., Richard, A., Dinic, R., & Blechert, J. (2019). Effects of a smartphone-based approach-avoidance intervention on chocolate craving and consumption. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 7(11):e12298. doi: 10.2196/12298 html.

Meule, A., Richard, A., Lender, A., Dinic, R., Brockmeyer, T., Rinck, M., & Blechert, J. (2019). Measuring approach–avoidance tendencies towards food with touchscreen-based arm movements. Psychological Research, 1-12. doi: 10.1007/s00426-019-01195-1 pdf.

Meule, A., Lender, A., Richard, A., Dinic, R., & Blechert, J. (2019). Approach-avoidance tendencies towards food: Measurement on a touchscreen and the role of attention and food craving. Appetite, 137, 145–151. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.03.002 pdf.

Meule, A., Richard, A., Schnepper, R., Reichenberger, J., Georgii, C., Naab, S., ... & Blechert, J. (2019). Emotion regulation and emotional eating in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Eating disorders, 1-17. doi: 10.1080/10640266.2019.1642036 pdf.

Rattel, J. A., Grünberger, L. M., Reichenberger, J., Liedlgruber, M., Miedl, S. F., Blechert, J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2019). Frequency of intrusions and appraisal of related distress after analogue trauma: A comparative ecological momentary assessment methods study. Cognitive therapy and research, 43(1), 174-184. doi: 10.1007/s10608-018-9941-6 pdf.

Rattel, J. A., Miedl, S. F., Franke, L. K., Grünberger, L. M., Blechert, J., Kronbichler, M., ... & Wilhelm, F. H. (2019). Peritraumatic Neural Processing and Intrusive Memories: The Role of Lifetime Adversity. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4(4), 381-389. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.12.010

Rattel, J. A., Wegerer, M., Miedl, S. F., Blechert, J., Grünberger, L. M., Craske & Wilhelm, F.H. (2019). Sex Differences in Peritraumatic Unconditioned and Conditioned Responding Mediate Intrusions after Analogue Trauma. Behavior Research and Therapy, 116, 19-29.

doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2019.01.009

Reichenberger, J., Smyth, J. M., Kuppens, P., & Blechert, J. (2019). “I will fast… tomorrow”: Intentions to restrict eating and actual restriction in daily life and their person-level predictors. Appetite, 140, 10-18. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.04.019 pdf.

Reichenberger, J.*, Wiggert, N.*, Wilhelm, F. H., Liedlgruber, M., Voderholzer, U., Hillert, A., Timmer, B., & Blechert, J. (2019). Fear of negative and positive evaluation and reactivity to social-evaluative videos in social anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 116, 140–148. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2019.03.009 pdf.

Richard, A., Meule, A., & Blechert, J. (2019). Implicit evaluation of chocolate and motivational need states interact in predicting chocolate intake in everyday life. Eating Behaviors, 33, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2019.01.006 pdf.

Richard, A., Meule, A., Georgii, C., Voderholzer, U., Cuntz, U., Wilhelm, F. H., & Blechert, J. (2019). Associations between interoceptive sensitivity, intuitive eating, and body mass index in patients with anorexia nervosa and normal‐weight controls. European Eating Disorders Review, 27, 571–577. doi: 10.1002/erv.267 pdf.

Scheiber, B., Greinz, G., Hillebrand, J. B., Wilhelm, F. H., & Blechert, J. (2019). Resilienztraining für unbegleitete minderjährige Flüchtlinge. Kindheit und Entwicklung, 28 (3), 173–181. doi: 10.1026/0942-5403/a000287

Schnepper, R., Richard, A., Wilhelm, F. H., & Blechert, J. (2019). A combined mindfulness–prolonged chewing intervention reduces body weight, food craving, and emotional eating. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(1), 106–111. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000361 pdf.

Schultchen, D., Reichenberger, J., Mittl, T., Weh, T. R. M., Smyth, J. M., Blechert, J., & Pollatos, O. (2019). Bidirectional relationship of stress and affect with physical activity and healthy eating. British Journal of Health Psychology, 24(2), 315–333. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2541576 pdf.

2018

Iffland, B., Wiggert, N., Neuner, F., Blechert, J. (2018). Neutral is negative enough—Peer victimization influences cardiac, facial-muscular and experiential reactions to both negative evaluative and neutral social stimuli. Biological Psychology, 139, 152–162. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.10.005

Keil, V., Uusberg, A., Blechert, J., Tuschen-Caffier, B., & Schmitz, J. (2018). Facial gender but not emotion distinguishes neural responses of 10- to 13-year-old children with social anxiety disorder from healthy and clinical controls. Biological Psychology, 135, 36-46. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.02.004

Meule, A., Reichenberger, J., & Blechert, J. (2018). Development and preliminary validation of the Salzburg Emotional Eating Scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(88), 1-10. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00088 pdf

Meule, A., Reichenberger, J., & Blechert, J. (2018). Development and preliminary validation of the Salzburg Stress Eating Scale. Appetite, 120, 442–448. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.10.003 pdf

Meule, A., Reichenberger, J., & Blechert, J. (2018). Smoking, stress eating, and body weight: the moderating role of perceived stress. Substance Use And Misuse, 53(13), 2152-2156. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2018.1461223 pdf

Miedl, S. F., Blechert, J., Meule, A., Richard, A., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2018). Suppressing images of desire: Neural correlates of chocolate-related thoughts in high and low trait chocolate cravers. Appetite, 126, 128-136. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.03.004 pdf

Miedl, S. F., Wegerer, M., Kerschbaum, H., Blechert, J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2018). Neural activity during traumatic film viewing is linked to endogenous estradiol and hormonal contraception. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 87, 20-26. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.10.006 pdf

Radke, S., Hoffstaedter, F., Löffler, L., Kogler, L., Schneider, F., Blechert, J., & Derntl, B. (2018). Imaging the up’s and down’s of emotion regulation in lifetime depression. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 12, 156-167. doi: 10.1007/s11682-017-9682-2 pdf

Reichenberger, J., & Blechert, J. (2018). Malaise with praise: A narrative review of 10 years of research on the concept of Fear of Positive Evaluation in social anxiety. Depression and Anxiety, 35(12), 1228–1238. doi: 10.1002/da.22808 pdf

Reichenberger, J., Meule, A., & Blechert, J. (2018). Essstörungen und Adipositas. In B. Gniewosz & P. F. Titzmann (Eds.), Handbuch Jugend. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Reichenberger, J., Richard, A., Smyth, J.M., Fischer, D., Pollatos, O., & Blechert, J. (2018). It's craving time: Time of day effects on momentary hunger and food craving in daily life. Nutrition, 55, 15–20. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2018.03.048 pdf

Reichenberger, J., Smyth, J.M., & Blechert, J. (2018). Fear of evaluation unpacked: day-to-day correlates of fear of negative and positive evaluation. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 31, 159-174. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2017.1396826 pdf

Richard, A., Meule, A., & Blechert, J. (2018). When and how do explicit measures of food craving predict implicit food evaluation? A moderated mediation model. Food Quality and Preference, 66, 141–147. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2018.01.018 pdf

2017

Asbrand, J., Blechert, J., Nitschke, K., Tuschen-Caffier, B., & Schmitz, J. (2017). Aroused at home: Altered basic autonomic regulation during orthostatic and physical activation in children with social anxiety disorder. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45, 143-155. pdf

Blechert, J., Liedlgruber, M., Lender, A., Reichenberger, J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2017). Unobtrusive electromyography-based eating detection in daily life: A new tool to address underreporting? Appetite, 118, 168-173. pdf

Georgii, C., Goldhofer, P., Meule, A., Richard, A., & Blechert, J. (2017). Food craving, food choice and consumption: The role of impulsivity and sham-controlled tDCS stimulation of the right dlPFC. Physiology & Behavior, 177, 20-26. pdf

Legenbauer, T., Martin, F., Blaschke, A., Schwenzfeier, A.,K., Blechert, J., & Schnicker , K. (2017). Two sides of the same coin? A new instrument to assess body checking and avoidance behaviors in eating disorders. Body Image, 21, 39–46. pdf

Meule, A. & Blechert, J. (2017). Indirect effects of trait impulsivity on body mass. Eating Behaviors, 26, 66–69. pdf

Meule, A. & Blechert, J. (2017). Interactive and indirect effects of trait impulsivity facets on body mass index. Appetite, 118, 60–65. pdf

Meule, A., Müller, A., Gearhardt, A. N., & Blechert, J. (2017). German version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0: Prevalence and correlates of ‘food addiction‘ in students and obese individuals. Appetite, 115, 54–61. pdf

Rattel, J. A., Miedl, S. F., Blechert, J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2017). Higher threat avoidance costs reduce avoidance behaviour which in turn promotes fear extinction in humans. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 96, 37-46. pdf

Reichenberger, J., Eibl, J., Pfaltz, M., Wilhelm, F. H., Voderholzer, U., Hillert, A., & Blechert, J. (2017). Don't praise me, don't chase me: Emotional reactivity to positive and negative social-evaluative videos in patients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 31, 75-89. pdf

Reichenberger, J., Wiggert, N., Agroskin, D., Wilhelm, F. H., & Blechert, J. (2017). No praise, please: Depressive symptoms, reactivity to positive social interaction, and fear of positive evaluation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 54, 186-194. pdf

Richard, A., Meule, A., Friese, M., & Blechert, J. (2017). Effects of chocolate deprivation on implicit and explicit evaluation of chocolate in high and low trait chocolate cravers. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(1591), 1–11. pdf

Richard, A., Meule, A., Reichenberger, J., & Blechert, J. (2017). Food cravings in everyday life: An EMA study on snack-related thoughts, cravings, and consumption. Appetite, 113, 215–223. pdf

Schnepper, R., Meule, A., Reichenberger, J., & Blechert, J. (2017). Wie Emotionen Appetit und Essverhalten bestimmen. NUTRITION-News, 14, 1-4. pdf

Trentowska, M., Svaldi, J., Blechert, J., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2017). Does Habituation really happen? Investigation of psycho-biological responses to body exposure in bulimia nervosa. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 90, 111-122. pdf

Wiggert, N., Wilhelm, F. H., Boger, S., Georgii, C., Klimesch, W., & Blechert, J. (2017). Social Pavlovian conditioning: Short- and long-term effects and the role of anxiety and depressive symptoms. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 329-339. pdf

Wilbertz, G., Delgado, M. R., Tebartz Van Elst, L., Maier, S., Philipsen, A., & Blechert, J. (2017). Neural response during anticipation of monetary loss is elevated in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 18, 268-278. html

Wilhelm, F. H., Rattel, J. A., Wegerer, M., Liedlgruber, M., Schweighofer, S., Kreibig, S. D., Kolodyazhniy, V., & Blechert, J. (2017). Attend or Defend? Sex Differences in Behavioral, Autonomic, and Respiratory Response Patterns to Emotion-Eliciting Films. Biological Psychology, 130, 30-40.

2016

Blechert, J., Klackl, J., Miedl, S., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2016). To eat or not to eat: Effects of food availability on reward system activity during food picture viewing. Appetite, 99, 254-261. pdf

Blechert, J., Peyk P., Liedlgruber, M., Wilhelm, F. H. (2016). ANSLAB: Integrated Multi-Channel Peripheral Biosignal Processing in Psychophysiological Science. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 1528–1545. pdf

Blechert, J., Testa, G., Georgii, C., Klimesch, W., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2016). The Pavlovian craver: Neural and experiential correlates of single trial naturalistic food conditioning in humans. Physiology & Behavior, 158, 18-25. pdf

Hofmann, J., Meule, A., Reichenberger, J., Weghuber, D., Ardelt-Gattinger, E., & Blechert, J. (2016). Crave, like, eat: determinants of food intake in obese adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(1389), 1-9. pdf

Lender, A. & Blechert, J. (2016). Essen oder nicht essen: Verfügbarkeit und Verlangen nach Nahrungsmitteln. NUTRITION-News, 13, 1-4. pdf

Meule, A. & Blechert, J. (2016). Trait impulsivity and body mass index: a cross-sectional investigation in 3073 individuals reveals positive, but very small relationships. Health Psychology Open, 3, 1-6. pdf

Meule, A., Hofmann, J., Weghuber, D., & Blechert, J. (2016). Impulsivity, perceived self-regulatory success in dieting, and body mass in children and adolescents: A moderated mediation model. Appetite, 107, 15-20. pdf

Miedl, S. F., Blechert, J., Klackl, J., Wiggert, N., Reichenberger, J., Derntl, B., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2016). Criticism hurts everybody, praise only some: Common and specific neural responses to approving and disapproving social-evaluative videos. NeuroImage, 132, 138-147. pdf

Morawetz, C., Kellermann, T., Kogler, L., Radke, S., Blechert, J., & Derntl, B., (2016). Intrinsic functional connectivity underlying successful

emotion regulation of angry faces. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(12), 1980-1991. pdf

Reichenberger, J., Schwarz, M., König, D., Wilhelm, F. H., Voderholzer, U., Hillert, A., & Blechert, J. (2016). Angst vor negativer sozialer Bewertung: Übersetzung und Validierung der Furcht vor negativer Evaluation - Kurzskala (FNE-K). Diagnostica, 62, 169-181. pdf

Schwarz, M., Reichenberger, J., Schwitalla, M., König, D., Wilhelm, F. H., Voderholzer, U., Hillert, A., & Blechert, J. (2016). Furcht vor positiver sozialer Bewertung: Übersetzung und Validierung einer deutschsprachigen Version der FPES. Diagnostica, 62, 157-168. pdf

Skodzik, T., Zettler, T., Topper, M., Blechert, J., & Ehring, T. (2016). The effect of verbal and imagery-based worry versus distraction on the emotional response to a stressful in-vivo situation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 52, 51-58. pdf

Van Dyck, Z., Vögele, C., Blechert, J., Lutz, A., Schulz, A., & Herbert, B. M. (2016). The Water Load Test as a Measure of Gastric Interoception: Development of a Two-Stage Protocol and Application to a Healthy Female Population. PLoS ONE, 11(9), e0163574. pdf

Werner, G., Ford, B.Q., Mauss, I.B., Schabus, M., Blechert, J., & Wilhelm, F.H. (2016): Cardiac Vagal Control and Depressive Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Sleep Quality. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15(6), 451-465. pdf

Wiggert, N., Wilhelm, F. H., Nakajima, M., & al'Absi, M. (2016). Chronic smoking, trait anxiety, and the physiological response to stress. Substance Use and Misuse, 51(12), 1619-1628. pdf

2015

Blechert, J., Wilhelm, F.H., Williams, H., Braams, B.R., Jou, J., & Gross, J.J. (2015). Reappraisal facilitates extinction in healthy and socially anxious individuals. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 46, 141-150. pdf

Hofmann, J., Ardelt-Gattinger, E., Paulmichl, K., Weghuber, D., Blechert, J. (2015). Dietary Restraint and Impulsivity Modulate Neural Responses to Food in Adolescents with Obesity and Healthy Adolescents. Obesity, 23, 2183-2189. pdf

Pfaltz, M., Kolodyazhniy, V., Blechert, J., Margraf, J., Grossman, P., Wilhelm, F.H. (2015). Metabolic decoupling in daily life in patients with panic disorder. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 377–383. pdf

Reichenberger, J., Wiggert, N., Wilhelm, F.H., Weeks, J.W., Blechert, J. (2015). "Don't put me down but don't be too nice to me either”: Fear of positive vs. negative evaluation and responses to positive vs. negative social-evaluative films. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 46, 164-169. pdf

Shafir, R., Schwartz, N., Blechert, J., Sheppes, G. (2015). Emotional intensity influences pre-implementation and implementation of distraction and reappraisal. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 1329-1337. pdf

Stütz, T., Kowar, T., Kager, M., Tiefengrabner, M., Stuppner, M., Blechert, J., Wilhelm, F.H., & Ginzinger, S. (2015). Smartphone based stress prediction. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan, S. Lawless(Eds.), User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 240-251). Berlin: Springer. pdf

Werner, G., Ford, B.Q., Mauss, I.B., Schabus, M., Blechert, J., Wilhelm, F.H. (2015). High Cardiac vagal control is related to better subjective and objective sleep quality. Biological Psychology, 106, 79-85. pdf

Werner, G., Schabus, M., Blechert, J., Kolodyazhniy, V., & Wilhelm, F.H. (2015). Pre- to post-sleep change in psychophysiological reactivity to emotional films: Late-night REM sleep is associated with attenuated emotional processing. Psychophysiology, 52, 813-825. pdf

Wiggert, N., Wilhelm, F.H., Derntl, B., & Blechert., J. (2015). Gender differences in experiential and facial reactivity to approval and disapproval during emotional social interactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(1372), 1-10. pdf

Wiggert, N., Wilhelm, F.H., Reichenberger, J., & Blechert., J. (2015). Exposure to social-evaluative video clips: Neural, facial-muscular, and experiential responses and the role of social anxiety. Biological Psychology, 110, 59-67. pdf

Woodward, S. H., Shurik, A. S., Alvarez, J., Kuo, J., Nonyieva, Y., Pereira, S., Blechert, J., McRae, K., & Gross, J.J. (2015). Seated movement indexes emotion and its regulation in posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychophysiology, 52, 679-686. pdf

Woodward, S.H., Shurik, A. S., Alvarez, J., Kuo, J., Nonyieva, Y., Pereira, S., Blechert J., McRae, K., & Gross, J.J. (2015). A psychophysiological investigation of emotion regulation in chronic severe posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychophysiology, 52, 667-678. pdf

Wilbertz, G., Delgado, M. R., Tebartz van Elst, L., Maier, S., Philipsen, A., & Blechert, J. (2015). Neural response during anticipation of monetary loss is elevated in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 1-11. pdf

2014

Blechert, J., Goltsche, J.E., Herbert, B.M., & Wilhelm, F.H. (2014). Eat your troubles away: Electrocortical and experiential correlates of food image processing are related to emotional eating style and emotional state. Biological Psychology, 96, 94-101. pdf

Blechert, J., Meule, A., Busch, N.A., & Ohla, K. (2014). Food-pics: An image data base for experimental research. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(617), 1-10. pdf

Blechert, J., Naumann, E., Schmitz, J., Herbert, B.M., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2014). Startling sweet temptations: hedonic chocolate deprivation modulates experience, eating behavior, and eyeblink startle. PLoS ONE, 9(1), e85679. pdf

Blechert, J., & Wilhelm, F.H. (2014). Psychophysiology. In: P. M. Emmelkamp & T. Ehring (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Anxiety Disorders (pp. 274-294). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pdf

Kuhn, M., Höger, N., Feige, B., Blechert, J., Norman, C., & Nissen, C. (2014). Fear extinction as a model for synaptic plasticity in major depressive disorder. PLoS ONE, 9(12), e115280. pdf

Meule, A., von Rezori, V., & Blechert, J. (2014). Food addiction and bulimia nervosa. European Eating Disorders Review, 22, 331-337. pdf

Peters, A.C., Blechert, J., Sämann, P.G., Eidner, I., Czisch, M., & Spoormaker, V.I. (2014). One Night of Partial Sleep Deprivation Affects Habituation of Hypothalamus and Skin Conductance Responses. Journal of Neurophysiology, 112, 1267-1276. pdf

Sheppes, G., Scheibe, S., Suri, R., Radu, P., Blechert, J., & Gross, J.J. (2014). Emotion regulation choice: A conceptual framework and supporting evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 163-181. pdf

Siess, J., Blechert, J., & Schmitz, J. (2014). Psychophysiological arousal and biased perception of bodily anxiety symptoms in socially anxious children and adolescents – a systematic review. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 23, 127-142. pdf

Wegerer, M., Kerschbaum, H., Blechert, J., & Wilhelm, F.H. (2014). Low levels of estradiol are associated with higher conditioned responding during extinction and intrusive memories in a novel conditioned-intrusion paradigm. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 116, 145-154. pdf

2013

Blechert, J., Michael, T., & Wilhelm, F.H. (2013). Video-based analysis of bodily startle and subsequent emotional facial expression in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 4, 435-447. pdf

Blechert, J., Schwitalla, M., & Wilhelm, F.H. (2013). Ein Video-Set zur experimentellen Untersuchung von Emotionen bei sozialen Interaktionen: Validierung und erste Daten zu neuronalen Effekten. Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie & Psychotherapie, 61, 81-91. pdf

Blechert, J., Wilhelm, F. H., Meuret, A. E., & Roth, W. T. (2013). Experiential, autonomic, and respiratory correlates of CO reactivity in individuals with high and low anxiety sensitivity. Psychiatry Research, 209, 566-573. pdf

Herbert, B.M., Blechert, J., Hautzinger, M., Matthias, E., & Herbert, C. (2013). Intuitive eating is associated with interoceptive sensitivity: Effects on body mass index. Appetite, 70, 22-30. pdf

Meule, A., Kübler, A., & Blechert, J. (2013). Time course of electrocortical food-cue responses during cognitive regulation of craving. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 1-11. pdf

Schmitz, J., Tuschen-Caffier, B., Wilhelm, F.H., & Blechert, J. (2013). Taking a closer look: Autonomic dysregulation in socially anxious children. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 22, 631-640. pdf

Wegerer, M., Blechert, J., Kerschbaum, H. & Wilhelm, F.H. (2013). Relationship between fear conditionability and aversive memories: evidence from a novel conditioned-intrusion paradigm. PLoS ONE, 8(11), e79025. pdf

Wegerer, M., Blechert, J., & Wilhelm, F.H. (2013). Emotionales Lernen: Ein naturalistisches experimentelles Paradigma zur Untersuchung von Angsterwerb und Extinktion mittels aversiver Filme. Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie & Psychotherapie, 61, 93-103. pdf

Wilbertz, G., Trüg, A., Sonuga-Barke, E., Blechert, J., & Tebartz van Elst, L. (2013). Neural and psychophysiological markers of delay aversion in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122, 566-572. pdf

2012

Blechert, J., Sheppes, G., Di Tella, C., Williams, H., & Gross, J.J. (2012). See what you think: Reappraisal modulates behavioral and neural responses to social stimuli. Psychological Science, 23, 346–353. pdf

Braams, B.R., Blechert, J., Boden, M., & Gross, J.J. (2012). Accept it or go with the flow? Regulation of anxiety and pain using suppression or acceptance. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 1014-1018. pdf

Kraemer, M., Seefeld, L.W., Heinrichs, N., Tuschen-Caffier, B., Schmitz, J., Wolf, O.T., & Blechert, J. (2012). Subjective, autonomic and endocrine reactivity during social stress in children with social phobia. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40, 95-104. pdf

Kull, S., Mueller, B., & Blechert, J., Wilhelm, F.H., & Michael, T. (2012). Autonomic and experiential responses in a differential fear conditioning paradigm. Acta Psychologica, 140, 43–49. pdf

Maier, S., Szalkowski, A., Kamphausen, S., Freyer, T. Feige, B., Perlov, E., Blechert, J., Kloeppel, S., Tebartz van Elst, L., & Tuescher, O. (2012). Clarifying the role of the rostral dmPFC/dACC in fear/anxiety: learning, appraisal or expression. PLoS ONE, 7(11), e50120. pdf

Schmitz, J., Blechert, J., Kraemer, M., Asbrand, J., & Tuschen-Caffier, B.(2012). Biased perception and interpretation of bodily anxiety symptoms in childhood social anxiety. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 41, 92-102. pdf

Schmitz, J., Scheel, C.N, Rigon, A., Gross, J.J., & Blechert, J. (2012). You don't like me, do you? Enhanced ERP Responses to Averted Eye-gaze in Social Anxiety. Biological Psychology, 91, 263-269. pdf

Spoormaker, V.I., Blechert, J., Goya-Maldonado, R., Sämann, P., Wilhelm, F.H., & Czisch, M. (2012). Additional support for the existence of skin conductance responses at unconditioned stimulus omission. Neuroimage, 63, 1404-1407. pdf

Wilbertz, G., Tebartz van Elst, L., Delgado, M., Maier, S., Feige, B., Philipsen, A., & Blechert, J. (2012). Orbitofrontal reward sensitivity and impulsivity in adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Neuroimage, 60, 353-361. pdf

2011

Blechert, J., Ansorge, U., Beckmann, S., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2011). The undue influence of shape and weight on self-evaluation in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and restrained eaters: a combined ERP and behavioural study. Psychological Medicine, 41, 185-194. pdf

Blechert, J., Feige, B., Joos, A., Zeeck, A., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2011). Electrocortical processing of food and emotional pictures in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Psychosomatic Medicine, 73, 415-421. pdf

Drabant, E. M., Kuo, J. R., Ramel, W., Blechert, J., Edge, M. D., Cooper, J.R., [...], Gross, J. J. (2011). Experiential, autonomic, and neural responses during threat anticipation and modulation by neuroticism. Neuroimage, 55, 401-410. pdf

Schmitz, J., Kraemer, M., Tuschen-Caffier, B., Heinrichs, N., & Blechert, J. (2011). Restricted autonomic flexibility in children with social phobia. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52, 1203-1211. pdf

Thiruchselvam, R., Blechert, J., Sheppes, G., Rydström, A., & Gross, J. J. (2011). The temporal dynamics of emotion regulation: An EEG study of distraction and reappraisal. Biological Psychology, 87, 84–92. pdf

Vriends, N., Michael, T., Blechert, J., Meyer, A. H., Margraf, J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2011). The influence of state anxiety on the acquisition and extinction of fear. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 42, 46-53. pdf

2010

Blechert, J., Ansorge, U., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2010). A body-related saccade task reveals distinct attentional patterns for bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 575-585. pdf

Blechert, J., Feige, B., Hajcak, G., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2010). To eat or not to eat: availability of food modulates the electrocortical response to food pictures in restraint eaters. Appetite, 54, 262-268. pdf

Blechert, J., Wilhelm, F. H., Meuret, A. E., Wilhelm, E. M., & Roth, W. T. (2010). Respiratory, autonomic, and experiential responses to repeated inhalations of 20% CO2 enriched air in panic disorder, social phobia, and healthy controls. Biological Psychology, 84, 104-111. pdf

Burkhardt, S. C. A., Wilhelm, F. H., Meuret, A. E., Blechert, J., & Roth, W. T. (2010). Temporal stability and coherence of anxiety, dyspnea, and physiological variables in panic disorder. Biological Psychology, 85, 226-232. pdf

Hoffmeister, K., Teige-Mocigemba, S., Blechert, J., Klauer, K. C., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2010). Is implicit self-esteem linked to body shape and weight in restrained and unrestrained eaters? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 31-38. pdf

Neubauer, K., Bender, C., Tuschen-Caffier, B., Svaldi, J., & Blechert, J. (2010). Erfassung dysfunktionaler Kognitionen zum Body Checking: eine deutschsprachige Version der Body Checking Cognitions Scale (BCCS). Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 39, 251-260. pdf

Nissen, C., Holz, J., Blechert, J., Feige, B., Riemann, D., Voderholzer, U., & Normann, C. (2010). Learning as a model of neural plasticity in major depression. Biological Psychiatry, 68, 544-552. pdf

Schmitz, J., Kraemer, M., Blechert, J., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2010). Post-event processing in children with social phobia. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38, 911–919. pdf

Svaldi, J., Tuschen-Caffier, B., Peyk, P., & Blechert, J. (2010). Information processing of food pictures in binge eating disorder. Appetite, 55, 685-694. pdf

2009

Blechert, J., Nickert, T., Caffier, D., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2009). Social Comparison and Its Relation to Body Dissatisfaction in Bulimia Nervosa: Evidence From Eye Movements. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 907-912. pdf

Pfaltz, M., Michael, T., Grossman, P., Blechert, J., Margraf, J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2009). Respiratory pathophysiology of panic disorder: an ambulatory monitoring study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 869-876. pdf

Spiegelhalder K., Hornyak, M., Kyle, S.D., Paul, D., Blechert, J., Seifritz, E., Hennig, J., Tebartz van Elst, L., Riemann, D. & Feige, B. (2009). Cerebral correlates of heart rate variations during a spontaneous panic attack in the fMRI scanner. Neurocase, 15, 527-534. pdf

Svaldi, J., Caffier, D., Blechert, J., & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2009). A body-related film clip triggers desire to binge in women with Binge Eating Disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 790-796. pdf

2008

Blechert, J., Michael, T., Williams, L. S., Purkis, H. M., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2008). When two paradigms meet: does evaluative learning extinguish in differential fear conditioning? Learning and Motivation, 39, 58-70. pdf

2007

Blechert, J., Michael, T., Grossman, P., Lajtman, M., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2007). Autonomic and respiratory characteristics of posttraumatic stress disorder and panic disorder. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 935-943. pdf

Blechert, J., Michael, T., Vriends, N., Margraf, J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2007). Fear conditioning in posttraumatic stress disorder: Evidence for delayed extinction of autonomic, experiential, and behavioural responses. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 2019-2033. pdf

Michael, T., Blechert, J., Vriends, N., Margraf, J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2007). Fear conditioning in panic disorder: Enhanced resistance to extinction. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 612-617. pdf

2006

Blechert, J., Lajtman, M., Michael, T., Margraf, J., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2006). Identifying anxiety states using broad sampling and advanced processing of peripheral physiological information. Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, 42, 136-141. pdf

2005

Blechert, J., & Meyer, T. D. (2005). Are measures of hypomanic personality, impulsive nonconformity and rigidity predictors of bipolar symptoms? British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44, 15-27. pdf

Meyer, T. D., & Blechert, J. (2005). Are there attentional deficits in people putatively at risk for affective disorders? Journal of Affective Disorders, 84, 63-72. pdf